Showing Fishing, Aquaculture

18 Apr 2003

The author of Jaws - the novel that evoked nightmares about sharks - has had a change of heart. Peter Benchley now wants to protect these feared marine predators. Marine scientists say sharks are in steep decline everywhere, - most species have dropped by more than 50 percent in the past 15 years. Here off Australia's East Coast only 500 Grey nurse sharks remain, making it one of the country's most critically endangered species. This week Earthbeat heads for the ocean to find out why shark numbers are in such dramatic decline and what can be done to save them .